[Commlist] Call for Papers · Spectrology, Haunting and Ghosts · Spring Seminar 2021

Spring Seminar 2021
Spectrology, Haunting and Ghosts

6-7 MAY 2021

Call for Papers: 21 FEB 2021
Acceptance note: March 1st 2021
[No payment from the authors will be required.]



Keynote Speakers and Artist Talks: 
Isabel Capeloa Gil
, João Pedro 
Rodrigues, José Bértolo
, Margarida Medeiros, Noé  Sendas and
Ulrich Baer

Organizing Committee
: Daniel Ribas
, Nuno Crespo



Some artworks, from cinema to visual arts and photography, have 
absorbed phenomena like ghosts, zombies, illness, death, spectra, 
apparitions, and other kind of “in-between” states of being. This kind 
of liminality is a way of bringing forward in our  historical present 
its profound ambiguity. 
 


Images are ontologically problematic in their approach to reality. They 
are always a representation of a time and a space, and their 
manipulation puts into question their indexicality.
 


This liminality of ghosts, spectra and apparitions is also a way of 
analyzing the complexity of our historical present, in both its 
linearity and a cross-over of past, present and future. Therefore, these 
“in-between” states discuss issues of the traumatic  past, as are 
empowerments to change the future. That is, the traumatic past haunts 
the historical present demanding new ways of knowing the world and 
history that will transform power structures.



This seminar aims to map and discuss contemporary manifestations in art 
& cinema of these phenomena. Communication and Media Studies scholars 
are welcome.

We welcome papers on the following topics:

- Critical theory on spectrology, haunting and ghosts;

- Cinema and visual arts that incorporate or relate to ghosts, zombies 
or dead people
;
- Spaces of liminality in cinema and contemporary art;

- Artworks that use spectrology, haunting and ghosts as means to speak 
trauma
;
- Alternative uses of narrative dealing with these “in-between” states
;
- How certain images haunt the historical present;
- Uncovering archives.

Guidelines for submissions:
- The proposals should be comprised of an abstract (about 300 words), a 
biographical note (about 100 words), 4-6 keywords and contact and 
affiliation information of the author(s);
- The proposals should be sent in a single word document (.doc or .docx);
- All submissions should be sent to (springseminar.arts /at/ porto.ucp.pt).

The evaluation of the proposals will follow a double-blinded peer-review 
process.

WEBSITE > https://artes.porto.ucp.pt/pt/springseminar
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